In highschool physics we studied electricity and electronics the second semester. I wanted to go away for college to study electrical engineering but my mom wouldn’t let me.
I have to say usually not. I’m friends with someone with a PhD in physics and I can’t understand anything he talks about when it comes to his work even when he makes it simple.
I find science a really difficult subject when the examples are not relatable to me or observable in someway. Things like particles/electrons for example - it could literally be a fairy tale for all I know as there is no way of seeing it for myself. I don’t doubt that it is true and provable, but I can’t just accept it and retain the knowledge when it feels like an abstract theory to me.
I took three engineering physics classes in college, enjoyed two of them very much, one of them not so much.
The two I liked were subtitled “mechanics of motion” and “fluid flow and thermodynamics.” The one I didn’t like was subtitled “electromagnetism.” I think that had more to do with the professor, though.
I was a chemical engineering major my first two years, before switching to biology/premed. As a premed biology major I studied plenty of physiology. This included learning about electrochemical processes, which involves the flow of ions (charged particles/atoms) into and out of cells, creating voltage across the membrane.
I was able to wrap my head around those concepts fairly easily, whereas I had a little bit harder time with things like actual electric currents, magnetic flux and stuff like that in the “electromagnetism” physics class. I did well in the one electrical engineering class I took, too. The physics professor just kinda sucked at his job, I think.
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